What does "Enable Anonymous mode" do in the bittorrent settings?

[gastra]

What does "Enable Anonymous mode" do in the bittorrent settings?
The link right next to it goes to a dead page on sourceforge. Can't find documentation on it neither here nor on SF. I'd like to know what it does, thank you.

[Dayman]

From http://www.rasterbar.com/products/libto ... anual.html

anonymous_mode defaults to false. When set to true, the client tries to hide its identity to a certain degree. The peer-ID will no longer include the client's fingerprint. The user-agent will be reset to an empty string. Trackers will only be used if they are using a proxy server. The listen sockets are closed, and incoming connections will only be accepted through a SOCKS5 or I2P proxy (if a peer proxy is set up and is run on the same machine as the tracker proxy). Since no incoming connections are accepted, NAT-PMP, UPnP, DHT and local peer discovery are all turned off when this setting is enabled.

If you're using I2P, it might make sense to enable anonymous mode as well.

[robhwill]

Hi n00b w/qBitTorrent here....pls show *where*anonymous mode located.
am using v. 2.8.5 on openSUSE 12.1; also, where/how to enable  blocklists??
thx. have a healthy, prosperous day!!
---rob

[Dayman]

Anonymous mode is supported in 2.9.0+; it should be in options->bittorrent under encryption method list.
IP block lists can be defined at the bottom of options->connection